Renowned Cranford Pre-School Set to Reopen
Historic flooding kept Watch Me Grow closed for over a year. Now the Temple Beth El Mekor Chayim is set to reopen its doors to 2-year olds.
In August 2011, parents of preschoolers at Watch Me Grow were purchasing backpacks, preparing their children to go back to school or even attend school for the first time. At the same time teachers were winding down their summers and getting excited for a new school year. Then on August 28th the unthinkable happened. Rising floodwaters, the result of Hurricane Irene, poured into the bottom floor of Temple Beth El Mekor Chayim of Cranford and Westfield (TBEMC) destroying the Watch Me Grow preschool classrooms, the TBEMC religious school classrooms, the TBEMC community library and the youth lounge. By mid-September it was unclear if Watch Me Grow would open. Within days it was clear it could not. Many parents of newly enrolled and …
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